Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong used the Hexagram to modify the Record of All Living Souls Weeping Blood, devising a Fortune Golden Core to shelter souls and improve the transfer of fortune. After testing the art on himself, he learned to sense and influence his own fortune, though it could be depleted and needed time to recover.

• Li Xingkong analyzed the Record of All Living Souls Weeping Blood with the Hexagram and identified its problems with protecting souls and transferring fortune.
• Li Xingkong devised a Fortune Golden Core that would combine the souls of willing contributors and provide luck instead of Magic Power.
• Li Xingkong worried that the art could later be used to harvest believers, but decided to make it as powerful as possible against the Three Heavenly Demons.
• Li Xingkong circulated the modified art within himself and used his Divine Sense to perceive his own fortune.
• Li Xingkong found that concealing his fortune worsened his luck, releasing it improved his luck, and fortune needed time to recover after being used.

Li Xingkong developed a fortune-amplifying cultivation technique and tested it by controlling Tang Huhu’s body. Tang Huhu’s cultivation reached Foundation Establishment Perfection, and the others connected by the red thread learned that Li Xingkong had returned.

• Li Xingkong refined the Fortune Golden Core technique and planned to combine it with the Crimson Blood One Heart Art so Ji Nanzhi and the others could learn it.
• Li Xingkong created a Fortune Golden Core and fused it into Tang Huhu’s Gate of Samsara, then controlled her body to circulate the revised Record of All Living Beings Weeping Blood.
• The technique drew the souls from Tang Huhu’s hidden space into the core, and Li Xingkong confirmed that the process had not harmed her before returning control to her.
• Tang Huhu found that her Mana Circuits had changed and her cultivation had risen to Foundation Establishment Perfection, despite being an artifact spirit.
• The others felt Tang Huhu’s cultivation pass through the red thread and asked what had happened; after Tang Huhu told them Li Xingkong was there, one pleaded with him for help.
• Li Xingkong told Tang Huhu to tell them to stick to the plan, revealing that he could hear their messages over the red thread.

Li Xingkong waited as Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, Old Ox, and Tang Huhu prepared to confront the three Heavenly Demons, while keeping his own intervention as a backup. The preparations were completed, and the demons arrived for a feast, unaware of the trap awaiting them.

• Li Xingkong agreed to support Ji Nanzhi and the others but kept the Convention's document and his own strength in reserve in case their possession plan failed.
• Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox decided to proceed despite fearing Li Xingkong would reject their method, and Ge Baoqi checked the formation.
• A week later, Tang Huhu confirmed the grand formation and providence were ready, and Ji Nanzhi contacted the last Heavenly Demon while Ge Baoqi and Old Ox went to summon the others.
• The three Heavenly Demons arrived at the feast in their true forms: the Succubus, the Envy Demon, and the Hatred Demon.
• The Succubus joked with Old Ox about the Axiom Arc taking over their assignment as the demons gathered at the feast.

Ji Nanzhi and her allies lured the three heavenly demons into a trap and unleashed a vast blood sacrifice to possess them. The possession began as a torrent of souls attacked the demons, while Li Xingkong supported the attempt from outside.

• Ji Nanzhi hosted the three demons and had Ge Baoqi present them with a simplified Crimson Blood One Heart Art.
• The demons cultivated the art and connected their souls to Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox through red threads.
• Ji Nanzhi gave the signal, and Tang Huhu drew on the fortune of hundreds of millions as blood sacrifice arrays activated across several planets, killing the cultivators within them.
• The souls of the dead surged toward Venus and followed the art’s red threads toward the demons, who realized the souls were attacking them.
• Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox joined the torrent and entered the demons’ bodies to possess them, while Li Xingkong pressured the demons from outside.

Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox fought to possess the three heavenly demons while Tang Huhu's fortune-fueled support neared its limit. They destroyed the demons and returned to their bodies, but the exhausted group began suffering dangerous backlash from depleted fortune.

• Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox seized key energy nodes in the demons' bodies while their souls and the invading tide overwhelmed the demons.
• The demons began devouring souls in return, turning the struggle into a contest of strength as the tide of souls dwindled and Tang Huhu warned that the fortune was nearly exhausted.
• Ji Nanzhi abandoned his defenses and attacked the Hatred Demon's soul, and Old Ox joined him after completing his possession first.
• Ji Nanzhi and Old Ox defeated the Hatred Demon, while Ge Baoqi stopped chasing the Envy Demon and destroyed it with their help.
• The three heavenly demons' souls returned to their bodies, but the drained fortune caused their bodies to disintegrate until Li Xingkong cast healing spells.

After the Solar System’s devastating battle, Li Xingkong secured authority over the surrounding star domains and began restoring the planets. Ge Baoqi, Ji Nanzhi, and Old Ox woke in the Three Demons’ bodies, where the demons’ emotions appeared to be corrupting their thoughts.

• After resting for nearly half a month, Li Xingkong obtained Convention documents appointing him manager of the surrounding star domains and placing the three Holy Church of Truth members under his authority.
• Li Xingkong cleaned up the Solar System while surviving independent cultivators cautiously returned to investigate the planets.
• Ge Baoqi woke in the Envy Demon’s body and struggled to control its unfamiliar movements and sudden remarks.
• Ji Nanzhi woke in the Hatred Demon’s body, and he and Ge Baoqi realized the Three Demons’ emotions might be influencing their minds.
• Ge Baoqi kicked Old Ox awake, and Old Ox began frantically searching for his little brother, prompting Ge Baoqi to suggest killing him.

After the Heavenly Demon’s defeat, Ge Baoqi, Old Ox, and Tang Huhu realized that possessing the Three Demons’ powers had begun to corrupt their souls and threaten their identities. Li Xingkong rebirthed the souls stored in the Fortune Golden Core, then examined the surviving fighters and found that their souls had merged with those of the demons and the blood-sacrificed victims.

• Ge Baoqi warned that the three of them might have to flee again because their past actions made them high-threat individuals in the Divine Land.
• Ge Baoqi raised the problem of sending the souls into Samsara, and Tang Huhu asked whether Li Xingkong’s Fortune Golden Core had prevented that.
• Li Xingkong explained that the Golden Core had only borrowed the souls’ fortune, then released the souls and gave each a new body formed from its memories.
• Li Xingkong returned the emptied Fortune Golden Core to Tang Huhu after rebirthing every cultivator whose soul had provided fortune.
• Li Xingkong examined Ge Baoqi and found that his soul contained the Envy Demon and souls from the blood sacrifices, which could briefly take control of his body.

Li Xingkong assessed the three survivors’ dangerously weakened, jumbled souls, and Ji Nanzhi proposed using a faith-god system to manage their souls and emotional burdens. The group considered what kinds of gods they might become as Li Xingkong judged the plan worth exploring.

• Li Xingkong explained that Ge Baoqi, Ji Nanzhi, and Old Ox would need to cultivate in their new bodies before their souls weakened further or the Three Demons reawakened.
• Li Xingkong questioned why taking over the bodies had gone so smoothly, but put the mystery aside until he could investigate it later.
• Ji Nanzhi proposed building divine sparks from their main souls, treating the other souls as believers, and using the Scarlet Heart Art to distribute their emotional burdens.
• Ji Nanzhi argued that his hatred could guide him toward becoming a God of Law, while Ge Baoqi joked that Old Ox could become Yue Lao and he could become the God of Progress.
• Li Xingkong considered Ji Nanzhi’s proposal promising.

Li Xingkong built a first-generation divinity for Ge Baoqi, enabling the Scarlet Heart Art to connect it to souls and influence them as believers. After examining the Envy Demon's memories, he learned that the Holy Church of Truth was not really a civilization but a single being whose members were all parts of Him.

• Li Xingkong agreed to help create a Faith God System and chose Ge Baoqi as a test subject.
• Li Xingkong forced a diamond-like divinity into Ge Baoqi and used the Scarlet Heart Art to activate it.
• Li Xingkong connected the divinity to the Envy Demon's soul and adjusted it to transmit information that could brainwash other souls.
• Li Xingkong sent the Envy Demon's memories to the Hexagram for analysis and learned that the Holy Church of Truth was a single being whose members were parts of Him.

Li Xingkong explained that Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox had become part of a being that spread itself through emotional pathways, then assigned them the identities of the Three Heavenly Demons and told them to restore the star system. He inspected the Three Demons’ research base near Venus, found their work behind the Axiom Arc’s, and kept their equipment so he could begin his own research.

• Li Xingkong explained that people who inherited the Three Demons’ emotional pathways became part of the being behind the Holy Church of Truth.
• Li Xingkong gave Divine Sense fragments to Old Ox and Ji Nanzhi, warned the group that their faith-god paths might cause problems in the Kingdom of Fixed Light, and ordered them to restore the star system and lift the blockade.
• Li Xingkong made Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox members of his research team and assigned them the identities of the Three Heavenly Demons.
• Li Xingkong went to the Three Demons’ research base in a space capsule near Venus and broke through its security system.
• Li Xingkong examined the laboratory and its records, concluded that the Three Demons’ research lagged behind the Axiom Arc’s, and decided to use their equipment for his own research.

After completing his analysis of the laboratory instruments, Li Xingkong met Wan Chongshan, who gave him coordinates to parallel worlds and taught him the Chasing Light technique. He gained an anchor for the main universe and was prepared to travel between universes to clean them out.

• Li Xingkong finished copying the laboratory instruments’ functions into his Divine Sense and sent the collected research data back.
• Wan Chongshan found Li Xingkong and revealed that she had captured the system, whose true form was a tiny golden figure.
• Wan Chongshan gave Li Xingkong coordinates for parallel worlds and warned him to run if he could not win and not to trust every clone.
• Wan Chongshan expanded Li Xingkong’s Divine Sense across the universe, giving it a main-universe anchor.
• Wan Chongshan taught Li Xingkong Chasing Light, a technique that let him travel instantly to places he had seen, heard, or read about, including across parallel universes.

Li Xingkong mastered enough of Chasing Light under Wan Chongshan’s accelerated time field to travel to another universe and search for her clones. He found a Wan Chongshan destroying the inhabitants of a vast ring, and she asked him to strike her with Dissociation Divine Light.

• Wan Chongshan accelerated time around the laboratory and helped Li Xingkong cultivate Chasing Light.
• After three months outside and ninety thousand days of cultivation inside, Li Xingkong prepared to leave, and Wan Chongshan warned him not to trust every version of her.
• Li Xingkong traveled to an unfamiliar star system and found a ruined ring with no apparent survivors.
• He saw the local Wan Chongshan destroy the remaining beings on the ring with powerful energy attacks.
• The local Wan Chongshan examined Li Xingkong and told him to hit her with Dissociation Divine Light, but he hesitated.

Li Xingkong sent one Wan Chongshan back to her origin, then traveled to another parallel world and discovered that its Thousand Mountains Body was a mindless berserker. After he failed to learn anything from her, he sent her back as well.

• Li Xingkong destroyed the first Wan Chongshan’s body and found documents written in the universal language, indicating she had lived in his universe.
• Li Xingkong saw the first parallel world shrinking and traveled to the next set of coordinates.
• Li Xingkong arrived amid a star-system-wide war and learned from a spacesuited man that it was year 203 of the Old Convention.
• Li Xingkong found the next Thousand Mountains Body slaughtering people and discovered she could not reason with him or answer his questions.
• Li Xingkong restrained the berserk Thousand Mountains Body and sent her back to her origin.

Li Xingkong continued hunting Thousand Mountains Bodies across parallel worlds, killing enormous numbers while the system estimated the task would last centuries. In a new galaxy, he joined the Axiom Arc’s effort to capture a mysterious life-form whose abilities matched those of a Thousand Mountains Body.

• Li Xingkong reflected on killing more than a hundred thousand Thousand Mountains Bodies and learned that the current one acted as a neutral force in a conflict between minor civilizations and the Holy Church of Truth.
• Li Xingkong asked the system how much time had passed, and the system estimated that ten years had elapsed and another three hundred years of hunting remained.
• Wan Chongshan seized the system after it insulted her, leaving Li Xingkong to continue alone through the coordinates on the list.
• Li Xingkong arrived in a seemingly peaceful galaxy in Axiom Arc territory and detected nearly ten Kilometer Arc deacons gathered there.
• A deacon invited Li Xingkong to join a capture operation targeting a life-form suspected of crossing parallel worlds, and Li Xingkong accepted and reviewed the intelligence.
• Li Xingkong learned that the target had destroyed a civilization and intercepted every escaping ship despite having no apparent intelligence network.

Li Xingkong hunted down Wan Chongshan’s counterparts in collapsing parallel worlds, but their reactions made him suspect that his connection to her went beyond the technique she had taught him. After collecting the Axiom Arc deacons’ final data, he continued the task while wondering whether Wan Chongshan might be Ajieta and who was watching him.

• Li Xingkong joined the Axiom Arc deacons’ search for Wan Chongshan and used his Divine Sense to locate her before they did.
• The Thousand Mountains Body accepted Li Xingkong’s attack, spoke of owing her life to him, and vanished when he struck her with Divine Light.
• The parallel world began collapsing, and the deacons recorded its annihilation data as they were swallowed by it.
• Li Xingkong collected the deacons’ data and continued eliminating Thousand Mountains Bodies across repeated parallel worlds.
• Li Xingkong noticed the Thousand Mountains Bodies were hiding more effectively and wondered whether Wan Chongshan was Ajieta.
• Li Xingkong questioned how he could travel through time and parallel worlds, and suspected that someone was observing his actions.

Li Xingkong visited the Arc-35 Galaxy while hunting down his Thousand Mountains Bodies and reunited with Guapilong, who had cultivated for over 2,000 years. Guapilong revealed her human form, which looked exactly like Wan Chongshan, leaving Li Xingkong stunned.

• Li Xingkong completed about three quarters of Wan Chongshan’s coordinates and jumped to the Arc-35 Galaxy.
• Li Xingkong visited the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds and sensed Guapilong approaching the Golden Core Stage.
• Li Xingkong found Guapilong cultivating and learned that more than 2,000 years had passed in this parallel world.
• Guapilong surprised Li Xingkong by revealing that she had taken human form and was female.
• Li Xingkong recognized that Guapilong’s human form looked exactly like Wan Chongshan and asked why she looked like her.

Li Xingkong discovered that Guapilong had taken the form of Sister Ajieta and renamed herself Xiao Chongshan, then learned that the Deep River Dragon Clan had vanished and that she had pursued cultivation for revenge. Unable to carry out his mission to kill her, he returned to the main world, where Wan Chongshan greeted him with amusement.

• Guapilong revealed her human form and explained that she had modeled it on Sister Ajieta, while Li Xingkong learned her Golden Core was damaged and she could only restart Core Formation.
• Guapilong named herself Xiao Chongshan after a line of poetry, and Li Xingkong decided he could not kill his friend.
• Xiao Chongshan told Li Xingkong that the Deep River Dragon Clan had disappeared around five hundred years earlier after Space-Devouring Worms severed their connections and attacked their treasury spaces.
• Xiao Chongshan said the Axiom Arc controlled the later worms, but she had been left alone and cultivated relentlessly to seek revenge.
• Li Xingkong told Xiao Chongshan he would return soon, used the Chasing Light Evasion Technique to go back to the main world, and appeared before Wan Chongshan in the laboratory.

Wan Chongshan revealed that she had orchestrated Li Xingkong’s encounters with her and deliberately prevented him from saving her past self. After she trapped him and took the system, Li Xingkong chose to cultivate for two thousand years in the time acceleration zone, leaving Wan Chongshan with a task for the system.

• Li Xingkong confronted Wan Chongshan about her deception, and she admitted that she had arranged his first meeting with her and their journey together.
• Wan Chongshan revealed that she had prevented Li Xingkong from reaching her past self because she wanted that self to suffer as she had.
• When Li Xingkong tried to escape, Wan Chongshan reversed time and trapped him, then took the system and said she would train it.
• Wan Chongshan offered Li Xingkong a choice between drinking tea with her for two thousand years or trying to surpass her through cultivation.
• Li Xingkong chose cultivation and entered the time acceleration zone, while Wan Chongshan stayed behind and told the system she had a task for it.

Li Xingkong prepared to use the Dragon Gate Method to advance from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, hoping to gain the power to resist Wan Chongshan. After weighing the risks and his knowledge, he chose space as the foundation for constructing his Dragon Gate.

• Li Xingkong resolved to cultivate until he could gain some freedom under Wan Chongshan’s power.
• Li Xingkong set aside his distracting thoughts and prepared to construct his Nascent Soul with the Dragon Gate Method.
• Li Xingkong considered the method’s risk: his Dragon Gate model could be incomplete, making it difficult to perceive influences beyond the universe.
• Li Xingkong chose the path of space because his studies and the Thousand Mountains Method had given him a strong foundation in it.

Wan Chongshan forced the system to try to make Li Xingkong lose his composure, but the system refused to interrupt his secluded cultivation. After testing the system’s loyalty, Wan Chongshan spared it and ordered it to help Li Xingkong instead.

• Wan Chongshan ordered the system to make Li Xingkong lose his composure and sent it into the time acceleration zone.
• The system tried to contact Li Xingkong but found him too deeply immersed in cultivation to respond.
• Wan Chongshan caught the system when it stalled and threatened to tear it apart unless it completed her task.
• The system refused to disrupt Li Xingkong’s cultivation, even when Wan Chongshan demonstrated her power by cutting a massive rift across the continent.
• Wan Chongshan spared the system after testing its loyalty, then ordered it to help Li Xingkong with its cultivation technique pool.